related works
Songs of Music : for tenor, horn, harp and strings / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
tenor-voice h hrp str
Nachtstück : for voice and orchestra / Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Benjamin de Murashkin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
zang 2fl 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-b trb-b timp dr-b str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium 3333 4331 timp 2perc cel hp str
Vier liederen : v. tenor en orchest, anno 1937 / op gedichten v. J.H. Leopold, Daniël Ruyneman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
ten 2221 2000 timp perc cel hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans